God in early Christian thought : : essays in memory of Lloyd G. Patterson / / edited by Andrew B. McGowan, Brian E. Daley & Timothy J. Gaden.

• Superior document: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, v. 94
• TeilnehmendeR: Patterson, L. G. 1929-1999.; McGowan, Andrew Brian, 1961-; Daley, Brian, 1940-; Gaden, Timothy J.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; v. 94.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

While the diversity of early Christian thought and practice is now generally assumed, and the experiences and beliefs of Christians beyond the works of great theologians increasingly valued, the question of God is perennial and fundamental. These essays, individually modest in scope, seek to address that largest of questions using particular issues and problems, or single thinkers and distinct texts. They include studies of doctrine and theology as traditionally conceived, but also of understandings of God among the early Christians that emerge from study of liturgy, art, and asceticism, and in relation to the social order and to nature itself.

Table of Contents

Who is the Demiurge? : Irenaeus' picture of God in Adversus haereses 2 / Richard A. Norris -- God beyond knowing : Clement of Alexandria and discourse / Annewies van den Hoek -- God in early Latin theology : Tertullian and the Trinity / Andrew B. McGowan -- Knowing God in the Theological orations of Gregory of Nazianzus : the heritage of Origen / Joseph W. Trigg -- God and Methodius : use of, and background to, the term aprosdees as a description of God in the works or Methodius of Olympus / Katherina Bracht -- Patristic exegesis and the arithmetic of the divine from the Apologists to Athanasius / James D. Ernest -- The Holy Spirit in Gregory Nazianzen : the pneumatology of Oration 31 / Christopher A. Beeley -- Divine semiotics and the way to the triune God in Augustine's De Trinitatis / Khaled Anatolios -- Ephrem's doctrine of God / Ute Possekel -- Trinitarian theology in early Christian anaphoras / Robert J. Daly -- Theophany and the invisible God in early Christian theology and art / Robin M. Jensen -- God and the poor in early Christian thought / Susan R. Holman -- The persons in God and the person of Christ in patristic theology : an argument for parallel development / Brian E. Daley -- God and storms in early Christian thought / Robert M. Grant.